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Ovid

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Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing, Leave a house empty, it rots.


— Ovid


#time #time-passing #beauty

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.


— Ovid


#classics #greek #humans #intelligence #metamorphoses

Quem põe ponto final numa paixão com o ódio, ou ainda ama, ou não consegue deixar de sofrer.


— Ovid


#love

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis. In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.


— Ovid


#comprehension #understanding #men

Ars est celaree artem.


— Ovid


#design #method #art

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.


— Ovid


#encouraged #even #faster #horse #own

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.


— Ovid


#character #cruel #faithful #liberal #liberal arts

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.


— Ovid


#fall #idle #love #person #them

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.


— Ovid


#cast #chance #expect #fish #hook

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.


— Ovid


#arise #before #believe #every #first






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Did you know about Ovid?

The chronology of these early works is not secure; tentative dates however have been establiOvidd by scholars. 19–20). 4.

Ovid was also the author of several smaller pieces the Remedia Amoris the Medicamina Faciei Femineae and the long curse-poem Ibis. He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet and is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. He is also well known for the Fasti about the Roman calendar and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto two collections of poems written in exile on the Black Sea.

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